[Rd] cat: ./R/Copy: No such file or directory

[Spencer Graves]

Dear Duncan: 

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Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 01/11/2008 8:53 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
>> Dear Ted:
>>       Thanks very much.  In fact, I did have a file named "Copy of 
>> create.fourier.basis.R".  I deleted it and got an even more cryptic 
>> version of the same error message.  I ultimately traced this to lines 
>> like "<<<<<<< .working" inserted by subversion into a *.R or *.Rd 
>> file I was using.  I found this by finding a previous "*.tar.gz" file 
>> that passed "R CMD check", studying the subversion log of 7 different 
>> changes made by 3 people since that one that worked, and reviewing 
>> changes made to at least 13 different files in that period until I 
>> found the problem. 
>
> Hi Spencer.
>
> If you're using Windows, I really recommend using TortoiseSVN.  It'll 
> make it very easy to see conflict markers like the one that caused 
> your trouble.  (I don't like their compare utility, but it's easy to 
> plug in a different one. I use Beyond Compare.)
      I've been using TortoiseSVN for roughly 18 months now, but I had 
previously not used much of its capabilities.  The log and diff files 
helped narrow the problem from someplace in 400 files to someplace in 13. 

      It would be nice if the "R CMD check" diagnostics were more clear 
about things like this.  However, even with these problems, it is vastly 
superior to the anarchy that organizes the software development efforts 
of many people I know.  I have friends and colleagues developing 
software in other languages with NOTHING like this, asking me to check 
their work.  I'm refining lectures on the virtues of "R CMD check" and 
pushing others adopt something similar for perl scripts, Matlab code, 
etc.  I'm eager to help develop such systems, and I resist efforts to 
have me repeat tests I developed months ago and should be automated. 

      Thanks for your reply -- and for your very valuable work in 
helping to develop the current "R CMD check" system. 

      Best Wishes,
      Spencer
>
> If you're not on Windows, there are probably similar things available, 
> but I don't know what they are.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>>       Best Wishes,
>>       Spencer
>>
>> (Ted Harding) wrote:
>>> Just guessing here, but it looks as though an attempt has been made
>>> to execute the following command:
>>>
>>>   cat ./R/Copy of create.fourier.basis.R
>>>
>>> This may have arisen because there is indeed a file named
>>>
>>>   "Copy of create.fourier.basis.R"
>>>
>>> but the command was issued to the OS without quotes; or (perhaps
>>> less likely, because of the presence of the "./R/") the line
>>>
>>>   "Copy of create.fourier.basis.R"
>>>
>>> was intended as a comment in the file, but somehow got read as
>>> a substantive part of the code.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>> Ted.
>>>
>>> On 01-Nov-08 15:40:33, Spencer Graves wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Hello:
>>>>       What do you recommend I do to get past cryptic error messages
>>>> from "R CMD check", complaining "No such file or directory"?  The 
>>>> package is
>>>> under SVN control, and I reverted to a version that passed "R CMD 
>>>> check", without eliminating the error.  The "00install.out" file is 
>>>> short and bitter:
>>>>
>>>> cat: ./R/Copy: No such file or directory
>>>> cat: of: No such file or directory
>>>> cat: create.fourier.basis.R: No such file or directory
>>>> make: *** [Rcode0] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Making package fda ------------
>>>>   adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>>>>   installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
>>>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `R/Copy', needed by 
>>>> `D:/spencerg/statmtds/splines/fda/RForge/fda/fda.Rcheck/fda/R/fda'. 
>>>> Stop.
>>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>>>> make: *** [pkg-fda] Error 2
>>>> *** Installation of fda failed ***
>>>>
>>>> Removing 'D:/spencerg/statmtds/splines/fda/RForge/fda/fda.Rcheck/fda'
>>>>
>>>>            Thanks for any suggestions.  I have a "*.tar.gz" file 
>>>> that I hope
>>>> may not have this problem, but I'm not sure.
>>>>       Thanks,
>>>>       Spencer
>>>>
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>>> Date: 01-Nov-08                                       Time: 16:19:56
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